A car respects the size/space of a truck, why can't cyclists see that they need to do the same with a car?
For the most part, cyclists do. Truck drivers are aware of the cars around them, why can't car drivers be the same for cyclists?
Trucks have had additional restrictions imposed on them. Sounds like cyclists need a bit of the same.
Trucks are bigger and less manoeuvrable than cars, so they have more restrictions than cyclists. Cars are bigger and less manoeuvrable than cyclists, and you're saying that cyclists should have more restrictions than cars? Doesn't seem right to me.
A numberplate only needs to be around 15 centimetres wide. Not much more annoying/space consuming, than the idiotic strobe lights that cyclists are allowed to use.
Not much more space consuming? A license plate 15 centimetres across is not much more than the lights I use? (2cm wide by 8cm high by 2cm deep, approx. - I have one right in front of me, right now.) Mate, I'd love to know what you're smoking; it must be some seriously good stuff.
And hey, here's another fun fact for you: bike sales in Australia have outpaced car sales for at least a decade. In the state of Victoria, in 2013, 307,292 cars were sold. Assuming 36 possible characters (A-Z, 0-9), that's four characters necessary to keep pace for a decade. So a bike rego plate would have to have at minimum five characters. That's not going to be 15cm wide, not if it's going to meet the standards required for other vehicles… 25cm seems more realistic. Just how is that going to be fit to the front of the bike, as you're suggesting?
I'm trying, but I really cannot see how registration for bicycles can be made to work from a strictly practical perspective - never mind (as I've indicated already) the fact that it's going to cost more than it brings in in revenue.
At this point, unless somebody can provide a solid, reasoned argument, I'd have to say I'm pretty much done with this thread. I'm hearing a hell of a lot of emotion, and not much by way of facts.
